To think my parents are batshit

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My parents don't own drinking glasses and never have.
Every single drink from tea/coffee to water or wine is served in a mug.
When I was growing up it seemed normal but when I moved out at 17 (I'm in my 30s now) I realised how odd it was.
I've now gone the other way and own far too many glasses for every occasion.

AIBU to think that my parents must be psychopaths?? 😂😂

Does anyone else's parents/family have odd quirks like this?

Does not matter what context, but if DS's question is 'is my mum batshit?' the answer will usually be 'yes'.

Whoof! 😂 Genius level of deception unlocked. 😂

I only read about it online...... [looks shifty...]

We have a hand towel on a hook on the back of the kitchen door, and tea towels for drying etc hang on the oven door handle. The hand towels are actual small towels anyway rather than cotton cloths so they wouldn’t get mixed up.

.. hint, whilst on a zoom call put wine in a mug and hang a herbal tea bag over the edge of the mug so everyone thinks that you are drinking herbal tea. 😉

Wine in a mug - just no! YANBU.

No tea towels - also strange - how does she take hot things from the oven?
I have oven gloves but I often use a tea towel for that as it’s easier.

Also - to dry hands I have slightly fluffier tea towel I wipe my hands on and the others I use for drying the things I wash by hand and for the tops of the mugs when I empty the dishwasher as they are never dry!
My DM went through a phase of serving sandwiches in little baskets for years - to save washing plates 🤭 strange woman.

No, certainly not psychopaths because of no drinking glasses. A bit weird for wine and special occasions but its just a quirk. More of a Aspergers/ADHD type of thing, if anything.

@Waterfallgirl No tea towels - also strange - how does she take hot things from the oven? I have oven gloves but I often use a tea towel for that as it’s easier.

Is it so difficult to image that people actually use ovengloves to handle hot trays and saucepans?

I'm another one for the right beverage in the right receptacle. I still recall my horror the day my (lovely) colleague reached past a row of clean glasses to get a mug, which he then filled with cold water and happily drank. I boggled.

I need to know more about the sandwich baskets. How did she keep them clean? Did she line them with paper napkins? If not, did years of increasingly mouldy crumbs line the bottom like a garnish?

It is reminding me somehow of a woman years back on 'Come Dine With Me' who refused to wash oven trays so she just threw them out each time after use and bought others. For some reason I was thinking about this in the middle of the night this very week when i could not sleep. Just about the sheer waste of it.

That is wierd, but is it the only eccentric thing they do or are they quite eccentric people anyway?

I haven’t met anyone, old or young, who doesn’t own even the most basic drinking glasses aswell as mugs.

I really hate the little glasses they have for juice at hotel breakfasts. I don't like hot drinks so need my juice. Usually stand there doing shot after shot of apple juice until I'm quenched or politely asked to leave.

Me and my friends sometimes do 'drunk rambles' - put some prosecco in a water bottle and go for a local walk. It's healthier than the pub but still enjoy a drink. My water bottle has little motivational slogans on it - 'keep it up', 'you got this', 'don't give up', 'just a bit more'...I find it very inspirational 😂🍾

So many people on this thread are hating water in mugs. Have you tried filling the mug with ice and adding nice cold water? It’s so refreshing. 😂 Just me?!

Does she have a hand towel to dry her hands as most of us do
Does she have oven mitts for dealing with hot baking trays etc
Does she have cloths to wipe up spills etc

I hate glasses. I hate the feel of them when you get them out the dishwasher, I hate when they get condensation down the outside, I'm constantly on edge waiting for someone to smash one (broken glass is so much more difficult to clear up than broken china, and any tiny missed shards are so much sharper).

I do keep some glasses for guests, because I don't want everyone to know I'm total weirdo. But I honestly can't relax until they're all back safely at the very back of the cupboard!

Batshit, or from Yorkshire?

I only drink from mugs (I'm too short to reach the shelf with the glasses on)

That's bonkers.

But I grew up in a hyacinth bouquet household where we had glasses for all sorts of drinks - teeny tiny ones for "pure" orange juice.

Bigger highballs for water/ squash. Red wine/ white wine/ champagne flutes. You name it we had a bloody glass for it!

I rebel as an adult and only have wine glasses and champagne flutes!

Nope, not from Yorkshire 😂
DM is from Chester and DF is from Liverpool.

Tbh I guess they are quite eccentric generally. I don't really notice as it's normal to me but they regularly do/say things that make my mind boggle.

I drink everything from mugs, except alcohol, which I don't really drink much of these days. So wouldn't really miss glasses much if I didn't have any!

You use kitchen roll to dry dishes?

Not sure about the UK, but kitchen roll wasnt even known in my country when I was growing up. I thought everyone knows kitchen roll is a lazy alternative to a cloth, to wipe surfaces?

It’s defo a generational thing. My grandparents only ever had the most tiniest glasses for juice. If you wanted water it was literally a thimble full - one gulp from a tiny glass.
Never owned any / hardly any mugs either. Only tea cups and the tiny glasses. I just don’t think drinking large quantities of cold drinks was a thing?

It was the same in my house growing up and it’s still the same at my parents now. Worst part is all the mugs have tea stains and the water out their taps is always warm. We never had nice things growing up.
I remember going to a friends house as a teen and being given a full cold glass of orange juice and being amazed as we only had that at Xmas and it would be like a dribble of it.

I can remember doing an science experiment at school as to which mug/cup kept liquid hot the longest. The glass mug was the winner!

It’s giving Sylvanian Families